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Bludded Head ‘Reign In Bludd’ LP 2014

6th October 20143rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2014, Bludded Head, Experimental, Heavy, Jamie Grimes, LP, Noise-Rock, Reign In Bludd, Review, Sleeping Giant Glossolalia

It’s a difficult one this Bludded Head album. One on hand their sound is in itself interesting, leaning more to

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Goat ‘Commune’ CD/LP/DD 2014

30th September 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, CD, Commune, Dave Bowes, Digital, Experimental, Goat, LP, Psych, Review, Rocket Recordings

In most senses of the word, Goat are no longer a band – they are a phenomenon. The anonymous collective

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Amenra / Madensuyu – Split 10″ 2014

16th September 20143rd September 2019 Angela Davey 10", 2014, Acoustic, Amenra, Angela Davey, Atmospheric, Colin H Van Eeckhout, Consouling Sounds, Experimental, Madensuyu, Review

Combining three of the best things to have ever come out of Belgium – post-metal aficionados Amenra, indie-pop/rock duo Madensuyu

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Creation Myths ‘It Only Gets Worse’ DD 2014

14th September 20142nd September 2019 Guido Segers 2014, Ambient, Creation Myths, Digital, Experimental, Gnaw Their Tongues, Guido Segers, It Only Gets Worse, Matt Finney, Mories, Review, Self Released, Soundscapes

Matt Finney is a spoken word artist. To put out something new that you can listen from your easy chair,

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Abstruse ‘Inner Space-Outer Void’ & ‘Outer Space-Inner Void’ – Space Twofold Series CD/DD 2014

7th September 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, Abstruse, Ambient, Avant-Garde, CD, Classical, Dave Bowes, Digital, Experimental, Industrial, Inner Space-Outer Void, Outer Space-Inner Void, Review, Self Released, Space Twofold Series

Is it possible to have too much ambition? In all honesty, the answer is probably no – nothing ventured, nothing

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3rd Ear Experience ‘Incredible Good Fortune’ CD/DD 2014

6th September 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, 3rd Ear Experience, Caspian Yurisich, CD, Digital, Experimental, Incredible Good Fortune, Prog Rock, Review, Self Released, Space Rock

We’ve all had those glory moments with music – it’s why you’re reading this, it’s why I’m writing this –

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Earth ‘Primitive And Deadly’ CD/LP/DD 2014

5th September 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, Brett Netson, CD, Digital, Doom, Drone, Dylan Carlson, Earth, Experimental, LP, Mark Lanegan, Primitive And Deadly, Rabia Shaheen Qazi, Rock, Southern Lord, Tom McKibbin

Earth’s post-reformation output has been widely praised; while the band laid dormant between the mid-nineties and mid-2000s, the likes of

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Guardian Alien / The Cosmic Dead ‘Tunnel Channel Volume One’ LP 2014

1st September 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, Dave Bowes, Experimental, Guardian Alien, Instructional Media, Kraut, LP, Psych, Review, The Cosmic Dead, Tunnel Channel Volume One

While I’ve always been somewhat in tune with the strange brainwaves that The Cosmic Dead live out their myriad existences

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Bild ‘OOBE’ DD 2014

26th August 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Bild, Caspian Yurisich, Digital, Experimental, Heavy, Industrial, OOBE, Review, Self Released

New Swans with a Cult of Luna-ish production and feel to it. That’s the review, let’s all go home! Honestly,

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Bitter Tree ‘Promethean Cloud’ DD 2014

24th August 20143rd September 2019 John Reppion 2014, Ambient, Bitter Tree, Digital, Drone, Drowning, Experimental, John Reppion, Promethean Cloud, Review, William C. Patton

Promethean Cloud is the debut album of the self-described one-man post-doom metal project Bitter Tree. William C. Patton of Ottawa,

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Kikagaku Moyo ‘Mammatus Clouds’ LP/DD 2014

19th August 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Ambient, Cardinal Fuzz Records, Caspian Yurisich, Digital, Experimental, Kikagaku Moyo, Kraut, LP, Mammatus Clouds, Mammutus Clouds, Psych, Review

For me, Japanese psychedelia is one of those genres where my taste is, admittedly, a little undiscerning- if it’s competent

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